The Mersey Sound Aka Liverpool - Home Of The Mersey Sound (1964)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2014
- Liverpool, Merseyside.
Excellent item about youth culture in Liverpool.
L/S, across the Mersey, of the Liver building. C/U of a man looking. L/S of the docks. Various shots around the city centre. Low angle shot of the cathedral, tilt down to a gang of teenagers walking past.
M/S of the exterior of a gramophone record shop. A shop assistant takes a single and shows it to two ugly teenage boys with greasy mop tops. Two girls look through a rack of records. Various shots of teenagers grooving to the latest sounds in listening booths.
M/S of a youth entering a barbers. The youth sits in a barber's chair. M/S of the barber combing the youth's hair into a trendy Beatle style. Various shots of boys having mop top cuts. C/U of a black youth having his hair combed.
Various shots of black and white youths hanging out around the city centre - the narrator compares their 'decadence' to that of declining Rome! Point of view shot from inside a car going through the Mersey tunnel.
Very dim panning shot inside the Cavern. Various C/Us of graffiti - mostly names of bands. Long panning shot of long queues of teenagers outside the cavern. Various C/Us of teenagers larking about in the queue. M/Ss of teenagers going into the Cavern. M/S of youths smoking. Various shots of teenagers chatting and jiving.
Various shots of Manchester group, the Ko-Dells performing in the "New Sound of 64" contest finals at the Cavern. Lots of great shots of teenagers listening to the music and dancing. Various shots of The Jinks from Berkhamsted (the eventual winners) performing. Various shots of The Drovers from Sidcup performing. Various shots of The Mersey Beats performing.
Point of view shot inside a car going through the Mersey Tunnel. More general shots of Liverpool streets. Low angle shot of a statue of a man on a horse. L/S of the Liver Building from the back of the Mersey Ferry. The narrator ends with the thought: "But is this the Mersey music that will live on?"
FILM ID:283.09
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have been looking for this for ever! i am the drummer in the Ko-dels now aged 75!!
Right on! 👍🏻
is your music on the internet anywhere?
Hi Ed
What’s the group’s story?
Who was in the lineup?
Were the girls on stage a part of the group?
Come on, ed. There's three questions been asked of you here. Spill the beans, lad.
The absolute contempt within the commentary. Fabulous archive.
couldn't agree more about the contempt. he sounded like a headmaster who wanted the teenagers to get their haircut, get books out and read a bit of Kipling then put an irving Berlin record on!
Sarcastic git.
Why overdub the screams? The cavern wasn't about that - it was about turning up, listening to some tunes and having a groove
I left school the year after this film was made.
And started work in Liverpool City Centre. The office buildings were mostly of Edwardian design and survived the second world war impact on the city.
Shops were plentiful with all styles catered for. We had dress well at Peter Pell for the suits.
Flemings for denim jeans, that had not caught on with younger generation
Streets were safer, and cleaner. Pubs were well run and a place to meet up.
Anyone who recalls the city centre from the 60s might be hard pressed to say the current centre has the same appeal to all ages, like it did in the 1960s and 70s
Flemings Jeans had a shop in Walton, nearly everyone in our School wore them and the wider the better, with either Air weir Boots, or Como Shoes. Happy Days.
@@stephensmith4480 They had the tag on the back with the address on - 74 Walton Road Liverpool. Back in the 70s, you had to be careful going to away matches if you wore your Flemings and were trying to keep a 'low profile.' Your Flemings could give you away.
@@gary1961 That`s right mate, I remember them well. That shop was Tiny if I recall, yet so many of us visited it.
Oh, those days. Those _wonderful_ days. How I wish it was all still there.
Utterly ruined by the overdubbed screaming. Total fakery. Typical of the media to do that shit even back then.
What a town. Love you, Liverpool.
Many people in that documentary would be well into their 70's and 80's now. I'm in my 50's and was a teenager in the 1980's. The 1960's must have been a glorious time to be a teenager, look at the impeccable dress code of the guys and gals, when did dress standards start to slip?
Immediately after this. 70's was all jeans and t-shirts for the masses. 80's got into bizarre glam and more rough edge punk. 90's was just dull and uninspired. 2000's for the last 20 years haven't had a plausible fashion, they've had anti-fashion.
That sadly all ended in 1968.
Toward the end of civil rights era the poor classes were being magnified and praised, and lower class dress became fashionable. Same thing happened in the 90s with people wearing jeans down off their asses. It’s interesting how lower classes are often elevated above higher classes by young people.
Greetings from Hamburg, Elbe to Liverpool, Mersey.
Is that where the Beatles first giged and got their mop top hair, before they became the fab four?
@@1funkyflyguyyep. That’s where Stu’s girlfriend gave them their signature mop tops.
I Welsh from my Father and Irish-Catholic through mum: Liverpool back in the day looks like my kind of town. It used to be called the "Other Capital of Wales" and Ireland. Such a fascinating city and history. So many Americans departed from Europe and Liverpool.
The accent of Liverpool is welsh, Irish and Scots mixed and they have a great accent love Liverpool
"... that Liverpool has inflicted on a long suffering world." Lol, great line.
The Beatles saved the world from boredom
Yup
Absolutely.
Who saved Lennon tho?
Fact!
This clip should be played in every Music Education program in the world.
Some of those albums would be worth a small fortune now! Off to build a time machine.
There’s well over 100k worth of musical instruments
At. 1:07. That’s Freda Kelly the Beatles secretary from 64 till they broke up she’s on the right dark hair
Although they didn't win, the second group, The Jynx, did get a recording contract and released the track played here as a single. Sadly it disappeared without trace but remains one of the most collectable beat group records of the time.
everybody looked so smart
This brings back memories of a time a year before I was born, in a place I've never been. But it's SO cool and nostalgic!
I was in Liverpool on a five night stay at the end of August with two mates and was my second visit to the city and really enjoyed myself more so that I went on the ferry for the first time.
Looking forward to going back, can`t wait.
Wish I would have been there. The girls look so beautiful and I love the suits the guys are wearing. I sure as hell was born in the wrong era.
There was time to have a life then. We have filled up our own lives with rubbish that exhausts us.
I was. And Hamburg to. Saw the Beatles 79 times in those early days.
@@oneeyedmonster9460 awesome
It was a great time back then in Liverpool...apart from the Cavern..we had such a choice of many other clubs...like...the Beachcomber....the Iron Door...the Pink Parrot...the Chequers...the Vermont...as well as lots of after hours coffee bars....I was lucky to have been born in that time...the rebirth of Rock N Roll....the Liverpool Sound
Who’s keeping you from wearing those clothes today? It’s your own conformity that stops you.
My first thought when watching this was how dirty some of the buildings were. I suppose that's what all the towns and cities were like in those days
Yes.'smog' was responsible.Our 'air' today is so much cleaner.
Coal?
I find great humor in the fact that these teenagers likely regard the music, styles, and culture of my generation with just as much contempt as the commentator does theirs
Love this - Can't beat a gramma phone music shop. Hippies.
Well, that was bloody condescending to the young people of Liverpool !
'it might be Rome' the soundtrack says....it could in actual fact be Rotterdam or anywhere
A different planet to where we live now.
Sadly!
Amazing! Eternal! Love it!❤❤😊
British Pathe has the best doc clips about British pop in the 1960s.
The narrator sounded like a stuffy old geezer in a suit.
the greatest place
What an era
My era!
I love the fact that a guy with merely an inch or so of hair at the back was "Long haired". Oh how that would seem a silly claim only a few years later. Heck I think Frank Zappas Freakout was only about a year or two after this.
Прекрасные белые лица , голубые глаза не одурманенные наркотой… девушки в платьях, мужчины выглядят по мужски … ГДЕ ВСЁ ЭТО СЕЙЧАС? Что стало с Европой ?
BIRTH OF THE BEATLES
Lovely amazing beautiful people city
So very different from today.
The Cavern was really a firetrap.
Luckily for them, there was very little actual combustible material down there other than the crowd themselves. The walls and ceilings were brick. The floor was stone and there was nothing like curtains or carpets which could catch fire. The fact that the vast majority were smoking would have been the likely fire source, if any.
I don't know if there were any fire exits or fire extinguishers.
@@gary1961 True... but just think if something had made the crowd panic. It would have been ugly.
Just LOVE the snark! Long live Queen Victoria!
Harking back to the 1950's & early 1960's in the Cavern......Anyone got a film of the Jazz performed there??? Merseysippi Jazz Band, for one?
Yes
Good video. Wish they wouldn't have added the fake screaming over it though.
Que lindo puedo verla a mi vecina ahora con 81 años que en sus años mozos hera bien loca
Some of those tracks sound just like the Beatles particularly the Mersey Beats song at the end it's almost like John singing, in fact it almost sounds like the Beatles covered their song, that line " gonna have some fun tonight" and did you hear the harmonica bit hard to know who influenced who, suppose it's like most musical scenes based in a specific location there's a lot of give and take both ways all influencing each other to make a consistent sound.
The weird thing is a lot of The sessions at The Cavern were lunchtime ones.
Talk about anything goes....Earthy is about the kindest discription
How much soot? Jebus!
Very dated now,but fascinating!
If that's dated, then give me dated every time!
@@hudois 100% 👍
Ummm anything older than 1 year becomes ‘dated’.
'because anyway' as part of the narration???
There’s a girl in the minute 1:08 who loks exactly like Freda Kelly (The Beatles Secretary)… is it she…?!?
I thought so too
Yep, that’s Freda! I asked her about this video a few years back and she said I was so funny filming it, as they had to stand in the record booths with no music playing and pretend to be into the non existent music. Both Freda and the lad, were both employees of NEMS and Brian Epstein.
@@Bigbear574 You couldn`t go to town on a Saturday afternoon without calling into NEMS.
deffo freda!
Wearing suits. Hanging out in a cavern. White kids dancing to blues music. Makes it seem like nothing else in history has ever been cool, except for this.
Was there! But only at the Caverne twice.
The _Carverne_ eh? Yeah, sure you was!
I refuse to believe this was reality, because what happened and where did it go
Too funny. Tons of screaming in the club scene and not one person seen screaming.
It’s like a time capsule from before the Muslim colonization. Fascinating.
That's in Merseyside, England
Were the bands actually paid to play, or was this one of those exposure tricks?
The Sound of '64 Beat contest in the footage was real so those competing bands weren't paid to be there unlike The Merseybeats
5:04 bros shredding
what is the song ??? 4:23 help me
'How' by The Jynx
@@TheMerseySound1 thx
I’m on acid… this is weird
What's with the screaming ?And no one was 😂
song name ? 5:01
Hi-Heeled Sneakers
'the corkscrew sort of hair that can't be coaxed'... jesus.
@bluebellbeatnik4945
Calm down
@@JackSmith-kp2vs think you need calming, dear.
Mersy tunnel or den.... Can't see anything
Why the colorization?
Ah, the narrator might sound dismissive and condescending. But he's more accepting than most that generation is of young people today
It's the young people today who aren't accepting of the older generation.
And it's not like people didn't have long hair in the past, either. It's not a new phenomenon. Look at the long hairstyles men had in the 17th century & back even further in medieval times. "This long, lank hairstyle"??!! Come to think of it, they weren't really very long at all. Judging by these mid-1960's hairstyles here, either. The hair got far longer in men, as the 1960's progressed. (ie: the late 1960's). This commentator doesn't half talk a load of old tripe!!
Teenagers dressed like their parents?
because that's the trend back then. Denims and non-formal attire were not yet worn in parties at that time.
In transition from the earlier 60's to the later 60's.
Everyone stylish - but the place looks like a bit of a dump.
It was, and they liked it that way.
Which bits look like a dump? Give the minutes and seconds ta.
I don't see anything that looks like a dump.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Another Jealous Muppet. Buildings like the William Brown St Library, The Liverpool Museum, I could go on and on. He could only dream of living in a dump like our Beautiful City.